Category Comics

Top Ten Book 1

Was perusing a discount book store and came across Top Ten Book 1 trade paperback from America’s Best Comics, a DC imprint.  It collects the first seven issues of the series and includes character designs as bonus material, 208 pages…

Prince Valiant Volume 1: 1937-1938

Let me start off by saying until I purchased this book I had never heard of Harold “Hal” Foster or Prince Valiant: they were off my comics radar.  I’ve never been a fan of newspaper comic strips and had limited…

Fan Expo Toronto ComiCON February Show

Sunday February 28th there was a one day show in Toronto at the Metro Convention Centre., put on by Hobbystar.  It was in a smaller room that was packed with local dealers and tables with artists.  I was at this…

Dominic Fortune: It Can Happen Here And Now

I’m a lifelong Howard Chaykin fan.  In the 80’s I discovered American Flagg! and never looked back.  He has a unique storytelling style that appeals to the teenager in all of us.  His art has shifted over time: I’m not…

Kirby: King Of Comics by Evanier

Jack Kirby is a giant legend in comics and everyone who has enjoyed a comic book in their life owes a tip of the hat to him.  Kirby: King Of Comics by Mark Evanier is a biography of Jack Kirby…

Brodart Just-A-Fold III Archival Book Jacket Covers

I’m a collector: comics, books, statues, that kind of thing.  No matter what it is I like to take care of it so it will last a good long time.  With my switch to trade paperbacks and hardcovers over weekly…

Sleeper Season One by Brubaker and Phillips

Sleeper Season One was recently released in trade paperback, collecting the original 2002 twelve issue series from Wildstorm.  It had been collected into two volumes in 2004 but this is the first time we have the first story line in…

Torpedo Volume 1 by Abuli and Bernet

Had seen The Complete Torpedo Volume 1 solicited in Diamond Previews but didn’t know much about the book.  A little internet searching and I found it was a long running Spanish story of a New York hitman in the 1930s:…

Review Criteria

With my new found interest in reviewing books and graphic novels it makes sense to lay out what I'm looking for before I tackle a review.